12-09-2005, 11:48 PM
Blight, part of me wants to kick you in the teeth. But that would be wrong, just like your opinion.
J/k...about the opinion part.
This is because on one hand I consider all animation from Japan to be anime, be it 2D hand drawn cells, CGI, or even stop motion (which I've never seen, does any one know of any?). So, saying Appleseed isn't anime is like saying Toy Story isn't American animation. Art style can differ greatly between shows using the same animation style, Super Milk Chan compared to Serial Experimants Lain for example. Notice that most shows don't look like Speed Racer anymore. Eyes are still big, but speed lines are down and frame rates are up as budgets grow and production methods change. Japan loves new tech, "Better, Faster, Samller" may as well be the national motto. So how can we ostricize Appleseed for useing said tech to try and stand out?
On the other less violent, less literal hand, I understand wanting anime to have a certain style. I find that I can give some shows a chance based on thier being anime, despite falling into a genre which I would ignore in any other format. Thus, there must somthing that ties them all together even though they have vastly different stories. I don't know that I could give that chance to a 3Dcgi movie even if it falls under the anime definition from the last paragraph.
Also, I completely agree that mixing 2D and 3D runs the risk of completely ruining a series. Harlock Saga comes to mind. It may have a horrible plot, I don't know, the 3D ships mixed so poorly with the 2D characters that I had to stop watching before I could find out. Zoids, however, mixed the two very well in my opinion and gave me faith that the two styles could exist peacefully together.
I think I'll stop now, I didn't mean to say so much. I just really like these subjects and haven't given them much though in a while. Oh, and let's not forget the use of CGI to help quickly create traditional looking 2D animation on the cheap, instead of gaudy 3D animation. Sorry.
J/k...about the opinion part.
This is because on one hand I consider all animation from Japan to be anime, be it 2D hand drawn cells, CGI, or even stop motion (which I've never seen, does any one know of any?). So, saying Appleseed isn't anime is like saying Toy Story isn't American animation. Art style can differ greatly between shows using the same animation style, Super Milk Chan compared to Serial Experimants Lain for example. Notice that most shows don't look like Speed Racer anymore. Eyes are still big, but speed lines are down and frame rates are up as budgets grow and production methods change. Japan loves new tech, "Better, Faster, Samller" may as well be the national motto. So how can we ostricize Appleseed for useing said tech to try and stand out?
On the other less violent, less literal hand, I understand wanting anime to have a certain style. I find that I can give some shows a chance based on thier being anime, despite falling into a genre which I would ignore in any other format. Thus, there must somthing that ties them all together even though they have vastly different stories. I don't know that I could give that chance to a 3Dcgi movie even if it falls under the anime definition from the last paragraph.
Also, I completely agree that mixing 2D and 3D runs the risk of completely ruining a series. Harlock Saga comes to mind. It may have a horrible plot, I don't know, the 3D ships mixed so poorly with the 2D characters that I had to stop watching before I could find out. Zoids, however, mixed the two very well in my opinion and gave me faith that the two styles could exist peacefully together.
I think I'll stop now, I didn't mean to say so much. I just really like these subjects and haven't given them much though in a while. Oh, and let's not forget the use of CGI to help quickly create traditional looking 2D animation on the cheap, instead of gaudy 3D animation. Sorry.